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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.) 10 2 Browse Search
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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book II:—--the Mississippi. (search)
the waters of Moon Lake under command of Lieutenant Watson Smith of the navy. During this time an engineer officer, Colonel Wilson, with a few hundred soldiers, had succeeded in opening a pass to the flotilla as far as the Tallahatchie. It was a lthe Confederates, guessing the object of their adversaries, had obstructed the course of the Yazoo Pass below Moon Lake. Wilson had been obliged to carry off, sometimes for a distance of several miles, the trees which encumbered the bed of the bayoubreach, had soon flooded the whole surrounding country, and it was through these marshy or submerged tracts of land that Wilson's soldiers were advancing with the saw in one hand and a musket in the other, alternately working and exchanging shots wits. Stuart, Morgan, Fitzhugh Lee, Grierson, Kilpatrick, Kautz, and others were remarkable cavalry officers: Sheridan and Wilson in the armies of the North, Van Dorn in those of the South, were the only generals of mounted infantry; no one knew as th
Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Addenda by the editor (search)
y. Captain George C. Gumbart. 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Battery E. 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Battery K. Ohio Light Artillery, 5th Battery. Ohio Light Artillery, 7th Battery. Ohio Light Artillery, 15th Battery. Cavalry. Major James G. Wilson. 15th Illinois, Cos. F and I. Seventeenth army corps. Major-General James B. Mcpherson. Escort. Captain John S. Foster. 4th Company Ohio Cavalry. Third division. Major-general John A. Logan. Escort. 2d Illinois Cy. Captain George C. Gumbart. 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Battery E. 2d Illinois Light Artillery, Battery K. Ohio Light Artillery, 5th Battery. Ohio Light Artillery, 7th Battery. Ohio Light Artillery, 15th Battery. Cavalry. Major James G. Wilson. 15th Illinois, Cos. F and I. Seventeenth army corps. Major-General James B. Mcpherson. Escort. Captain John S. Foster. 4th Company Ohio Cavalry. Third division. Major-general John A. Logan. Escort. 2d Illinois Cav